Anyone seen this new Garage Door Controller from Wyze? It supposedly uses camera to determine the state of garage door if it opened or closed .
Yeah I saw it a while back, not that new. Its a cool concept and nice to have a cam inside the garage anyway so you can see who comes and goes that way. I have been thinking about adding a cam in there when I add one in front of it also to get both the driveway and inside.
I do not think you could integrate to Hubitat (easily) though, so it would only be useful if you are already heavy into the Wyze ecosystem.
I've found the Wyze API too annoying and restrictive. Additionally, far too much processing is cloud centric. My conclusion is that it makes their devices hard to rely upon.
I have a few Wyze cams around the house/garage, but all in innocuous spots -- one's floor-level watching the dog's crate in our otherwise unused guest room, and a couple out in the detached garage to watch the garage door and the service door. I don't pay for any extra monitoring features -- just being able to pull the live feeds up via their app works good enough for us.
The cams are very reliable and have good range.
I guess I wouldn't trust them in any high-traffic areas with respect to security/snooping/etc, but where we have them, I don't care if anyone somehow gets access to those feeds -- they would be bored to death.
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We have a couple of Wyze cameras in the drawer too.
We use commercial name brand cameras to monitor all around outside of the house 24/7 and we don't have any cameras at all anywhere inside of the house.
Before going on vacation we would set up a couple of Wyze cameras around the house so we know when our family members or friends has came by to feed the pets etc.
It's pretty much the only time the Wyze cameras get used and it goes right back into the drawers once we are back home from vacation.
i have like 30 wyze cameras between 4 locations.. they are pretty good. but motion detection is flakey at best (detection times out and stops working) and every so often i need to click the
"reset" link in the app to get them detecting aqain. Its nice to have all cameras in one app grouped by location vs going into multiple apps.. Also some of the cameras outdoors that are at the limit of my 2.4ghz signal sometimes disconnect. I find i need to put a switch on them so i can reboot them remotely occasionally. Especially if the house is empty and i therfore have no easy access..
that said.. i wouid not put any device for garage door control that is not locally based..
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